Opinion
Appellate Case No. 2017-000478 Unpublished Opinion No. 2017-UP-352
08-31-2017
South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Samuel L. Setters, Jr., and Candice Cook, Defendants, Of whom Samuel L. Setters, Jr., is the Appellant. In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.
Melinda Inman Butler, of The Butler Law Firm, of Union, for Appellant. Susanna M. Ringler, of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Aiken, for Respondent. Amy Patterson Shumpert, of Nance, McCants & Massey, of Aiken, for the Guardian ad Litem.
THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR. Appeal From Aiken County
Dale Moore Gable, Family Court Judge
AFFIRMED
Melinda Inman Butler, of The Butler Law Firm, of Union, for Appellant. Susanna M. Ringler, of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Aiken, for Respondent. 2 Amy Patterson Shumpert, of Nance, McCants & Massey, of Aiken, for the Guardian ad Litem. PER CURIAM: Samuel L. Setters, Jr., appeals a family court's order finding he sexually abused one of his minor children; placing custody of his minor children with their mother, Candice Cook; ordering Setters and Cook to complete placement plans; and granting Setters overnight visitation with four of his minor children. Counsel for Setters filed an affidavit pursuant to Ex parte Cauthen, 291 S.C. 465, 354 S.E.2d 381 (1987), stating she reviewed the hearing transcript and believed the appeal lacked merit. After a thorough review of the record and the family court's findings of facts and conclusions of law pursuant to Cauthen, we affirm the family court's ruling and relieve Setters's counsel. AFFIRMED. SHORT, KONDUROS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.